Emanuel

Happy easter everyone, good spring weather to get the camera bag out

As an American I'd like to quote the immortal words, the best words, the POTUS has shared on this holiest of days, "Praise be to Allah"
Seriously though, it would be wonderful if there were more folks truly (not just pretending) trying to live by the actual authentic philosophies of the New Testament.  If only we could be so lucky.
Happy Easter.

Here you have straight from Mr. Vogel, Mike Vogel, Milady:
 
Love this one BTW...

Addressed to all naysayers : X

To those like me, this is the most important day of the year, so my best wishes to everyone!

There is also Chinese camera manufacturers like DJI,Insta360 and Z-cam capturing specialised market share

They could learn with Blackmagic.
They could learn with Red.

Let's keep the debate goin'
...Can't wait for the next great prompt artist to really bring their vision to the screen.  No one prompts as well as that Vogel dude.  That guy prompts.  Why try to create a golden hour scene when you can just ask for it?  Nothing says artistic cinema like a computer deriving and stealing other's hard work.
:-|
Should we go to an art museum to look at some lesser talent's paint-by-numbers?  The creation matters.  Now let's do motion pictures.  Cinema has always been craft as well as the art.  Minimize the craft, minimize the art.

Here you have straight from Mr. Vogel, Mike Vogel, Milady:
 
Love this one BTW...

Addressed to all naysayers : X

Nikon has a new boss
An optics engineer... not an accountant. Wishing him well for the future...

100% - I'd assume that this was the best image that an expert with all the other associated equipment was able to get with a decent travel budget and after a decent period of having it.
I've always maintained that there are three useful references for a piece of equipment:
The best images that anyone is able to create
This shows the upper limit of its potential The images that competent reviewers get
This shows the type of images that people of moderate skill are able to get in non-ideal conditions The worst images
You never get to see these until you get one yourself, but in theory this would show how fragile/flexible the camera is (for example you can expose an Alexa pretty horribly wrong and still get a half-decent image from it, but try that with a camcorder and it's a complete disaster) The promo is only the first category, and the fact there are only a few shots in there is a statement in itself.
I think the 15mm is a lot better than people make out, but of course most discourse online is from people who think that a Zeiss Otus is the ideal lens and that Michael Bay doesn't use large enough apertures.  To be honest, when reading / listening to most opinions now I am just hearing that the person hasn't been to the cinema for years, hasn't watched any/much classic cinema, and isn't even familiar with the saying "F8 and be there" let alone thinks that it is the cornerstone of almost all the important photography in the history of the field.
I was always interested in the 9mm but as I bought the SLR Magic 8mm F4 as one of the first lenses I bought, then upgraded to the Laowa 7.5mm F2 lens later on, the selection of slow wider pancake lenses was never really justified for me.
Right, I guess that makes the moon shot even easier then.  If you have enough light then almost any camera will look pretty good.
Looking at the mount again, there doesn't appear to be any visible mechanism to attach the lens..

I'm wondering if this might be a magnetic mount of some kind, like MagSafe perhaps.  If that's true then it might just be a matter of pulling the lens off and snapping another one on.  That would certainly fit with the GoPro ethos of it being a fast no-nonsense experience.

Love your posts as contribution here BTW ; ) keep going :- )

"How Another Man REALLY Shaped Wong Kar-Wai's Aesthetic // Christopher Doyle" is a far better title... ; )
(>_<)

WTF Lies?? Well, I (try to) follow the point but perhaps when the verb is irregular instead? : X 
oh gosh
Wong Kar-Wai’s directing is just something from another world (FULL stop!) ...for those who truly understand its meaning.
 
Cinematography is part of the filmmaking process, no doubt about that, but I tend to see the other, more distorted side of the debate: those who overlook who truly shapes the work, when the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts.
 
- EAG :- )

Even more amazing they were low budget B-movies with shoot schedules under five weeks !

Not even in 4K!
It's like they've never watched a single YT tutorial on how to make their footage cinematic.

Based on the collaboration between director Anthony Mann and cinematographer John Alton, here are the films they worked on together:
T-Men (1947)
Raw Deal (1948)
He Walked by Night (1948) - Mann directed most of the film but was uncredited
Reign of Terror (also known as The Black Book) (1949)
Border Incident (1949)
Devil's Doorway (1950)
The full movie of "He Walked by Night" is on youtube 
 

Part of the reason they could make these film was the introduction of Kodak Eastmann Super  XX film after WW2.It was rated at around 160-200 ASA which was over 2 stops faster than film of the 1930s.It also was known for its ability to be pushed (underexposing and overdeveloping)It was regularly pushed one stop to 320AS and sometimes two stops to 640ASA like on Citizen Kane. 

Well that was awesome.

I'm not sure what "a modern approach" is, but iMovie and Luma Fusion are both pretty straightforward and unbloated from what I remember - and they both run on Mac.  I'm not sure if either one has a lut editor, but 3d lut editor has been pretty good for a while now, hasn't it?

Shotcut (a free cross-platform NLE) might give some inspiration -- good clean UI which is intuitive to use if you just keep the dockable panels you really need:
https://shotcut.org/
 

I found an interview with the person who shot the under-water sections of a GoPro promo video (IIRC it was for the Hero 3 or 3+), and the level of effort they put into it was simply incredible.  He had a team of about 5, three crew and two cast, and they had a week for production.  He was an independent DOP and had done some pre-production as part of his 'pitch' to GoPro to get the gig, but I think they did detailed pre during the week as well as camera tests and lots and lots of shooting.
This was only for the underwater shots (the bikini girl diving beneath the waves).  If we assume that each of the (maybe half a dozen?) locations each got 5 people for a week, then that's ~7500 hours just to film the 1-2 minute promo video.  The level of cherry-picking is extreme - professional DOPs pitching projects, travel to the most exotic locations, testing of all modes with all manner of equipment, everyone in cast and crew are professionals, long shooting days at the best times (golden hour, etc), dozens of hours of footage just to make a short promo.  Then people set it to auto, hold the tiny camera in their hand and film their family at the beach with whatever lighting and weather happens to be there at the time and then we wonder why it doesn't look like the promo videos...
Having said all that, if GoPro make an interchangeable lens camera with a half-decent bitrate and a colour-managed LOG profile then it might be the tiny camera we've been wanting!

It’s only a matter of time before some big movie is shot exclusively on a Go Pro or DJI…

For sure, and I'd be excited to give it a try!  I was a Kickstarter backer of the Z Cam E1 and I've bought a few Ribcage kits/cameras over the years.  I was disappointed by all of them, but I'm still hoping for that magical/usable tiny sensor camera!  I have a little bag full of D-mount and C-mount lenses just waiting to go on something!
(I still wish there were a way to get a decent/non-laggy video feed from the Insta360 One R/RS series - I have a Ribcage-modded 1" module and the quality is really decent - but focus is hard, given the only options for monitoring are the camera's tiny screen or laggy wifi)